Posted on 11/26/2022 1:25:22 PM PST by nickcarraway
The white sign-language interpreter booted from Broadway’s “Lion King” for his skin color quietly settled his federal discrimination case against the theatre company that fired him, The Post has learned.
Keith Wann and the Theatre Development Fund — a nonprofit that provides ASL interpreters at Broadway shows — resolved the dispute outside of court just two weeks after Wann filed his lawsuit and The Post published a front-page report.
“The matter between myself and TDF has been resolved and both parties are satisfied with the discussions that ensued,” Wann wrote in a social media post announcing the settlement. “I look forward to the review of the process that will come from this to hopefully benefit the interpreting profession.”
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I assume a NDA was signed.
I hope that I get fired for being white.
Free money is the best.
I know I could find a bunch of Caucasians to go up there and put a boot in those ahos portraying the Founding Fathers as being black.
If they insist on a sign-language guy who isn’t white, perhaps that South African who had the gig at Mandela’s funeral is available.
Wouldn't that disclose it? At least to sign language readers.
I’m fine with the NDA. he got some money, his lawyers got some money, the theatres lawyers got some money, the theatre pays a race ransom to make it go away as fast as possible.
and perhaps the theatre makes a few generous tax deductible donations to some sign language non profit orgs.
Lol, uggg.
Since sign language was invented by white people, POCs have no business in the signing profession to begin with. I mean, if we’re going to take cultural hoarding on the basis of race seriously, we have to be consistent. Why should a person of color stand before a theater audience aping the white man’s synthetic language?
Will the EEO office now be investigating? Where are they?
I hope he won bigly! 😃
Lol! Good point.
He might have gotten a decent settlement up front but he’ll never work again on Broadway.
I’m fine as well.
I want to get fired for being white. I could travel the US getting fired over and over again. NDA after NDA.
There was a funny Kids in the Hall sketch many years ago.
It was two construction workers having lunch on an I beam.
They were dreaming about having a permanent disabling, yet
non crippling injury.
Black ‘racial nationalists’ have discussed and demanded a ‘black signage be developed and taught only to POC. It is posited it could become sort of black pig Latin enable black communication around whitey that whitey could not understand. This is is true.
How do you “interpret” a musical?
"This is not discrimination,” Sutton signed on the video that amassed over 57,000 views. “Reverse racism is not a thing. Stop taking all the jobs when we have black interpreters that are the better fit. Wipe your own white tears because we are not going to do it for you.”
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